Everyone loved Ellen DeGeneres’ Dory, the ditzy blue tang with short-term memory loss in Finding Nemo (2003). In Finding Dory, opening June 17, she reunites with some old aqua-friends and makes some new ones.
- Albert Brooks returns as Marlin, the clownfish, and newcomer Hayden Rolence takes on the role
of his son, Nemo. - Andrew Stanton comes back as Crush, a sea turtle, and his son, Squirt, is played by Bennett
Dammann. - Willem Dafoe returns as Gill, a Moorish idol fish who was one of Nemo’s fellow tank inhabitants.
- Diane Keaton is Jenny, Dory’s mother, and Eugene Levy is Charlie, her father.
- Ty Burrell is Bailey, a beluga whale.
- Ed O’Neill is Hank, an octopus.
- Idris Elba is Fluke, a sea lion.
- Kaitlin Olson is Destiny, a whale shark.
- Dominic West is Rudder, a sea lion.
- Bill Hader and Kate McKinnon provide (unnamed) character voices.